How to DPS as Bard - Tips & Tricks - Achieve 450 dps

[GalaxyGirl]

Also how much dps do you do on turn 8 and turn 9?

[Viridiana]

On enemies that die fairly quickly you may want to use venomous bite only as it is more front loaded. After 2 ticks VB is more potent than a heavy shot. Takes WB 3 ticks.

The only time that "Venomous only" is more potency is if it's dying in exactly two ticks.

Blood for Blood should really be saved to be used with your songs more than anything else. Afterall your Songs deprive you of 20% of your damage dealt, while Blood for Blood increases your damage dealt by 10% meaning overall you will only be losing 10% of your damage dealt for the duration of Blood for Blood all told.

Since everything's multiplicative, you'd still be losing 12%, not 10%. Besides, I'm not saving B4B or any of my other buffs for the off-chance that I have to Ballad or Paeon. Especially since B4B stacking with other buffs makes it more than a 10% buff

[Sleigh]

450 dps on a dummy? How long was this parse?

I'm not the OP but it was 3 minutes long and he had a DRG giving the Disembowel debuff. Kind of a misleading title IMO.

[Sessurea]

450 dps on a dummy? How long was this parse?

Probably the duration of barrage xD

[Kaze3434]

I'm not the OP but it was 3 minutes long and he had a DRG giving the Disembowel debuff. Kind of a misleading title IMO.

3 minutes is an incredibly short time, and yea, this op is very misleading.

[Shurrikhan]

Since everything's multiplicative, you'd still be losing 12%, not 10%. Besides, I'm not saving B4B or any of my other buffs for the off-chance that I have to Ballad or Paeon. Especially since B4B stacking with other buffs makes it more than a 10% buff

I thought it was confirmed before than nothing affecting the same modifier was multiplicative in this game. I.e. Hawk's Eye does not affect Dex potions, and Blood for Blood does not affect Raging Strikes, because they all affect base factors, rather than the current/modified amounts. Only when they are separate modifiers, such as Blood-Hawk or Raging+Disembowel/(any other form of vulnerability-up or resist-down), is there any chance of being multiplicative. That being said, while I remember the source for that information being fairly convincing, I no longer have the link, so take it with a grain of salt.

[AniCelestine]

Is there any chance of being multiplicative. That being said, while I remember the source for that information being fairly convincing, I no longer have the link, so take it with a grain of salt.

One could easily try it out. Go to Striking Dummy. Pop all dmg +x% and next time pop them in different order, and then pop them alone. If alone x skill deals same as x+y. And y alone deals same as y+x (note the order in which you activated them.)
Or if x = x+y or y+x, then it can be confirmed that stacking +x% dmg boosts is useless

[LunarEmerald]

450 dps on a dummy? How long was this parse?

It's 450 with party buff, food, pots, disembowel and a level 50 training dummy with lots of misery's end. It only lasted 3 minutes too. So, it's an inflated parse that means nothing.

[Hakmatic]

Ive seen a bard do 440 dps on t8.

[GalaxyGirl]

Ive seen a bard do 440 dps on t8.

Wtf who was this bard?